RE: I Have A Hobby

I love this so much! It is such a motivator when you can get something back from the recycling. It used to be the case here (I'm in the US), but now, in my state anyway, not so much. You used to be able to take recycling to the store and get money back, or sometimes there were "can bank" machines where they would take aluminum cans like soda comes in and it was like a reverse vending machine. But those things don't exist anymore! You can possibly take metal things all the way to the recycling facility, and some people do - scrappers will drive around searching trash or checking online forums where people post something like, they have an old appliance that broke, could a scrapper take it away? And the scrappers will come and take it and get money from the recyclers for their trouble. But that's way on the edge of town, so only people with a truck or something who can take a big pile generally do it.

There is still recycling here, but you don't get paid for it, and I wonder if our % of things recycled is so low because of it. In states where they have a return system for bottles, their rates of recycling are much higher, because people get paid for it.

What do the sellers do with the paper that you take them? Do they use it for wrapping? Catching grease from cooking? Composting for their crops?

!LUV
!PGM
!LOLZ
!DIY